SSO

By Alex Simons, Director of Program Management, Microsoft Identity Division

Howdy folks, I’m happy to share that as part of our efforts to eliminate unnecessary signin prompts while maintaining high levels of security, we’re making some major improvements to how we manage refresh tokens lifetimes. This blog post goes into much greater technical detail than we usually discuss in this blog. But this is an...

By Alex Simons, Director of Program Management, Microsoft Identity Division

Howdy folks, If you’re a follower of this blog you’ll probably recall that we announced pass-through authentication and seamless single sign-on in Azure AD at the end of last year. These features make it easy and fast to deliver world class end user sign-in experiences with Azure AD. Today I’m excited to announce a few...

After a great first half of our discussion before the holiday break, Mark Russinovich (CTO, Microsoft Azure) and I spend the second part of our drive talking about his successful side-career as a novelist, the amazing rate of public cloud adoption by enterprises over the last year, and we play the “Is This a Real...

Howdy folks, It seems like hardly a week goes by these days without a new story of leaked credentials, malware and phishing hitting the news. These stories make it super clear that in many ways, passwords are one of the most vulnerable parts of many security regimes. In Microsoft’s Identity Division, we are doing a...

Register now for our latest Enterprise Mobility webinar. This session will focus on configuring your Azure Active Directory (AD) Premium features. In this free 30 min webinar, Senior Product Marketing Manager for Azure AD, Nasos Kladakis will be walking us through a number of Azure AD Premium scenarios. After a quick adminstrator overview, we will dive...

Howdy folks, Just a quick note today. I’m happy to let you know that we’ve just turned on free trials of Azure Active Directory Premium. Now you can get a free 90 day trial of Azure AD Premium for up to 100 users. Vivian Liu, one of our cool summer interns, created a short video that shows you how to activate a free...

Hello folks. This is Uday Hegde from the Active Directory product team at Microsoft. I’m the Group Program Manager in Alex Simons’ team who is responsible for Windows Server Active Directory. Hopefully by now, you’ve downloaded your copy of the preview build of Windows Server 2012 R2 and have started using some of the new...

Introduction Now that we have released Windows 7 & Windows Server 2008 R2 to manufacturing, we wanted to share our plans to make the Remote Desktop Connection (RDC) 7.0 client available to Windows XP and Windows Vista. RDC 7 will ensure that when connecting to Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 from an XP...

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